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Nursing & Health Sciences Personal Librarian
What are Databases
- Research tools that help you find articles in journals, magazines, or newspapers, or other information sources like books, videos, and maps.
- Some focus on a kind of source (like newspaper articles); most of ours focus on scholarly research in a specific academic field.
(Ruth Szpunar at DePauw University)
Search Multiple Databases
Tutorials on Searching Nursing Databases
- CINAHL Databases - Basic Searching TutorialThis tutorial demonstrates the basic searching features of the suite of CINAHL databases on EBSCOhost.
- CINAHL Databases - Advanced Searching TutorialThis tutorial demonstrates the advanced searching features of the suite of CINAHL databases on EBSCOhost.
- SBU Libraries Research Strategies and Nursing Literature ReviewInformation from the SBU Libraries on researching a nursing literature review for students in course NUR 4333.
- SBU Libraries Evaluating ArticlesThis tutorial covers how to evaluate articles you have found through the library website to see if they will work for your research paper or project.
- PubMed for Librarians: IntroductionLearn about the difference between PubMed and MEDLINE, how to run a basic PubMed search, how to assess your search results, where to find search details, how to customize PubMed with My NCBI, and different ways to search for a known citation. We also briefly introduce Medical subject headings (MeSH), automatic term mapping, search tags and subheadings.
Recommended Databases
- CINAHL CompleteThis database is the most comprehensive source of full-text for nursing & allied health journals, providing full text for more than 1,300 journals. It is the definitive research tool for all areas of nursing & allied health literature.